US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on April 7 for "Distributed control device and distributed control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,851, issued on April 7, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed control device and distributed control system" was invented by Shinji Ozaki (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a distributed control device including a sub-control circuit operated by using a power supply voltage, a first drive device controlled by the sub-control circuit, a first minor error output circuit that outputs a first minor error signal including first minor error information to the first drive device, a first major error output circuit that outputs a first major error signal including first major error informatio...